Ask HN: How do you deal with sites auto-playing ads/videos with sound?

I mostly deal with it by yelling, screaming, cursing, throwing things, and threatening (in a non-specific and non-literal way) to "kill the motherfucker that made this site".

And then I think about installing an ad-blocker for 2 or 3 minutes, but usually by then I've calmed down and I just go on with whatever it was I was doing to begin with. Lather, rinse, repeat.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto... solves the problem thoroughly for Chrome.

Thanks for pointing that out. Installed, and looking forward to much less annoying web experience.

Installed! Thank you!

I get pissed and close the tab. I always regret visit CNN.